Yank: The Common Soldier of the Union (1952, repr. Baton Rouge, LA, 1989), p. 339; Mary
Elizabeth Massey,
Women in the Civil War (originally published as
Bonnet Brigades, New York, repr. Lincoln, NE, 1994), pp. 78–9, 84. Wiley also suggested that a few of the women who disguised themselves as men were persons of easy virtue who enrolled as soldiers to further their lewd enterprises but he stressed that the majority . . . were reputable characters,
motivated by patriotism or a desire to be near husbands or sweethearts Wiley,
Life of Billy Yank, pp. 138–9; Leonard,
All the Daring of the Soldier, p. 248.
See also Richard Hall,
Patriots in Disguise Women Warriors of the Civil War (New York, Index entry in Reid Mitchell,
Civil War Soldiers Their Expectations and their Experiences (New
York, 1988). It should be noted that an entry of combatants appears under women in a survey study of the Civil War that also acknowledges that women soldiers did exist and that they fought for many reasons—to uphold political principles, to enjoy the drama of battle,
to support themselves, and to accompany their loved
ones David Herbert Donald, Jean Harvey Baker and Michael F. Holt,
The Civil War and Reconstruction (New York and
London, 2001), p. 375; Mary A. Livermore,
My Story of the War (Hartford, CT, 1889), p. Leonard,
All the Daring of the Soldier, p. 165, and see her discussion of estimating figures in her notes, pp. 310–11. Figures
for nurses are from Leonard,
Yankee Women, pp. 7–8; Wiley,
Life of Billy Yank Massey,
Women in the Civil War, p. 174; Rosecrans, quoted in Massey,
Women of the Civil War, p. Leonard,
All the Daring of the Soldier, pp. 168 ff.
and passim Livermore,
My Story of the War,
p. 112; Leonard,
All the Daring of the Soldier, pp. 135–6, Turchin quotation p. 140; on
Etheridge, pp. 106 ff, esp. pp. 109, Leonard,
Yankee Women, p. 13; George C. Rable,
Civil Wars Women and the Crisis of SouthernNationalism (Urbana and Chicago, IL, 1989), pp. 124, 127; Leonard,
Yankee Women, p. Walker quotation pp. Nell Irvin Painter, Representing Truth Sojourner Truth’s Knowing and Becoming Known,”
Journal of American History 81: 2 (September 1994), pp. 461–92, quotation p. Henrietta Buckmaster,
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